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Old 11-25-17 | 09:58 PM
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Bikes: It's complicated.

If there's one thing that vintage sucks at compared to modern technology, it's lighting.

LED lights and engineered optics run circles around old incandescent lights. Generators that runoff of a tire are so much less efficient than even a lowly Sanyo hub generator.

USB rechargable lithium ion batteries get better and cheaper every year.

The only thing going for old lighting systems is that they look vintage.
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